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Magazine writing

I’m a freelance writer available for work.

Since 2012 I’ve had approximately 14 articles published in UK magazines. I don’t consider myself a professional writer, it just started as a hobby, but I’ve been lucky enough to have everything published that I’ve submitted, along with my own photographs. I have written mainly for the three popular UK sailing magazines – Practical Boat Owner, Yachting Monthly and Sailing Today. I have also contributed to an article in Woman & Home, and most recently I have had two pieces published in Your Cat magazine.

My aim in 2016 is to branch out and write different articles for other magazines.

I recently won the Star Letter and prize in ‘Writing Magazine’, in which I referred to the need to take good quality photos to accompany magazine articles.

Since I have started my blog, I have been asked to be a guest contributor on several other blogs including a post on Wandering Wives.

Another opening for would-be writers which I have discovered, is on travel sites. I wrote one article for a USA sailing site CruiserTV about the pleasures of sailing in Greece.

I came across another German-run holiday company called Zizoo, who offer tailor-made sailing holidays worldwide. I noticed that they didn’t have much information on sailing in Greece, which is a huge and popular sailing area. I contacted them and offered to write an article on sailing in Greece, and they have now commissioned me to write one article a fortnight for them! You can read my first two articles here.

My most recent publication was in an in-flight magazine. You know those magazines you get in the seat pockets on the plane, that you might glance at while waiting for your in-flight lunch to arrive? I flew from Greece to London with Monarch, and I sent in something which was published in their “Essentials” section in their ‘Passport’ magazine.

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Here’s me!

For the past 8 years, we've owned a yacht and spent each summer floating around the Greek Islands. Sadly, we've had to give up this lifestyle, and have now sold the yacht and returned to being landlubbers on the Isle of Wight. I fill my time by going for long walks, taking photos, and trying to write my memoirs.